[Mesa-dev] OpenGL ES only configuration (without "desktop" OpenGL support)

[Chad Versace]

On 08/06/2013 09:44 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 15:54:57 -0700
> Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Siarhei Siamashka
>> <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> But if upstream Mesa treats this configuration as unsupported, then I
>>> also don't see it progressing anywhere in Gentoo. So could you please
>>> re-consider this decision?
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, ES without Desktop GL is disallowed only because
>> it was discovered to be broken
>> which is because no one working on Mesa appears to test it.
>
> I have not done any really serious testing. I'm just playing around [...]


>> If you can test it (and provide patches when you notice that it's
>> broken) I don't have a problem with allowing ES-only builds.

I agree. If you can fix Mesa to support ES-only builds and do *serious*
testing with Piglit and some real ES applications to prove that it works,
then I'm not opposed to supporting that configuration.